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The Affirming an Ignorance of History in Action

“As Court Punts, Thomas Compares Arguments for Affirmative Action to Those for Slavery..”

An inadequate, incomplete or a failed educational experience has consequences…very often causing bad things to be said, or to happen. Alas, contrary to a popular saying; there is no bliss, no sanctuary, and no safe place to be found in ignorance. Ignorance can cause suffering, pain and death; starting with the “owner” of that ignorance; and then reaching out to harm others beyond themselves. How does one emerge from High School, college and a law school experience, and not fully comprehend the terrible, violent and vicious dehumanization of the American Slavery Institution? It fails badly as a metaphor, and contemptuously spits on the spirits of those who suffered under that horrible system of human capitalization. Whatever problems exist with the current actualization of “affirmative- action” would surely have been traded by our enslaved ancestors for their experience of daily degradation, and the denial of their fundamental rights of person-hood. For sure, there are many credible methodological and ideological critiques of “affirmative-action” that could have been rationally and respectfully argued; (making a sound and sensible argument without offending your audience should have also been learned in the before mentioned educational settings). The irony of the entire event is that it is the affirmative-action of Judge Thomas’s black skin that allows him a special license and preference to get away with such an insulting remark; a remark that would have caused an uproarif spoken by one of his White colleagues on the court.

“As Court Punts, Thomas Compares Arguments for Affirmative Action to Those for Slavery..”